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Recognizing that his enemy is massing forces he can’t take on, and fearing for his family, General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit to the British. The action will result in a death penalty, but Hull’s sentence will be pardoned due to his previous Revolutionary War heroism..

(1896) Gold fever hits in remote northwest Canada

Rabbit Creek in Canada’s Yukon Territory will soon be renamed Bonanza Creek, because it’s along this waterway that George Carmack and Skookum Jim Mason first discover gold deposits. An estimated 100,000 hopeful prospectors will soon stampede to stake a claim in the Klondike Gold Rush..

(1974) Four ‘brothers’ from Queens take the stage in downtown NYC

Johnny, Tommy, Dee Dee, and Joey Ramone play the Bowery’s CBGB club in matching leather jackets, jeans, and attitudes, belting out their set of blistering songs in a style soon to be dubbed ‘punk.’ Rocketing from this first gig, the Ramones will change the course of rock ‘n’ roll. .

(1989) Space storms crash a stock market’s computers

All trading is halted on the Toronto Stock Exchange as three disc drives fail and computers crash. Scientists trace the failure to microchip interference from a geomagnetic storm caused by a massive solar flare, even larger than the one that took down Quebec’s power grid months earlier..

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